Example sentences for: frustrated

How can you use “frustrated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • All attempts to identify the poisoners are frustrated by a tradition of reluctance, even among their victims, to tangle with authority.

  • Replying to a frustrated colleague in the field, the Bin Ladin unit chief wrote:"having a chance to get [Bin Ladin] three times in 36 hours and foregoing the chance each time has made me a bit angry.

  • Henry Hyde's frustrated riposte from the floor of the Senate: "You're saying, I guess, that perjury's okay if it's about sex, that obstruction is okay.

  • But Clarke was frustrated about how little the Agency knew, complaining to Berger that four years after "we first asked CIA to track down [Bin Ladin]'s finances" and two years after the creation of the CIA's Bin Ladin unit, the Agency said it could only guess at how much aid Bin Ladin gave to terrorist groups, what were the main sources of his budget, or how he moved his money.

  • Now consider the lament of an NBC Today guest that an undertaking had been frustrated “and now we're back to ground zero.”


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